Starcrash. I’ve finally watched a sci fi film that is worse than the Star Wars Holiday Special. One of the worst films i have ever seen, worse than At the Earth’s Core even.
I’ve probably said it before but i hate that they killed Anakin Solo making Chewie’s death and sacrifice meaningless. I hate that they ruined Jacen Solo. I hate that they killed Mara Jade Skywalker. I hate Vergere being a Sith, i hate Abeloth, the new Sith tribe and i hate how they ended the story of Callista and i never was a fan of hers.
I actually liked the story in KOTOR but being a videogame where you choose your character is good or evil, male or female its not really something to base a series of films or books on. The games are so loosely connected they don’t tell one cohesive story. And Old Republic is all the more worse for that since it doesn’t really care about lining up with Kotor 2 because Obsidian made it not Bioware. In recent years other than the mostly excellent Legendary Edition of Mass Effect i really believe they deserve the title of BeWare.
The Mcguffin in Dial of Destiny is the worst in the Indiana Jones series. And i thought aliens sucked as a Mcguffin in Skull.
The idea might not be terrible but in execution what a let down.
Are they going to cast actors to play Luke, Han and Leia in Heir to the Empire, deepfake or just plain not use those characters? Personally i think they should just cast actors. Deepfake is so video gamey.
I remember some magazine interviewing Flynn and actually thinking this would be the prequel movies. Can’t remember if it was cinescape or sci fi universe, one of those magazines that always had wild stories of movies and scoops that almost never came to be accurate. They weren’t exactly Starlog. I think Mark Altman and Robert Meyer Burnett came out of that scene.
I recall seeing the cover art for the Faces set before I watched any of the films. So I wasn’t altogether surprised when it was revealed the alien whose big green face emblazoned the ROTJ tape was Yoda.
I’m jealous of those who got the proper theatrical viewing experience.
I’m quite jealous as well seeing as how i first saw Empire on video cassette in 84. And only saw Jedi in second run in 1985 during its re-release and in a really bad theater. I was fortunate or unfortunate to be old enough to buy tickets to see the 1997 special edition. and Star Wars literally sold out for like a week where i live in 1997.
I wasn’t old enough to see Empire in 80. I wasn’t even born when SW came out in 77. My older brother was basically only 4 months old at the time as well.
I actually liked Padme in Phantom Menace. And other than excusing Anakin killing the Tusken’s she was alright in the second, she is basically just barefoot and pregnant in the third, because they cut out all the scenes where she was a leader. The founding of the rebellion scenes should have stayed in the movie. I also think the scenes with her family humanized Anakin and Padme and should have stayed as well in Attack of the Clones.
Lucas wants the movies to be super fast paced and to never lag. I like the Tatooine scenes with Beru and Owen in II and Anakin’s family. Way too short. Its like he extends the really bad cgi scenes in the prequel and the over the top action and avoids human scenes because he is bad at writing them.
Added Tenchi Muyo OVA funimation blu-ray and DVD set. It is long out of print and usually sells for a hundred and fifty. I scored it for 50 bucks.
Added the first half of the OVA from the Japanese release, and the movie trilogy set was only a hundred total a steal.
Added Star Trek Strange New Worlds season 2 digital.
I also ordered some laserdiscs but apparently they got lost in the mail. Seller is looking for them. All Japan anime without any english subtitles or dubs. I’m kind of not happy because i long wanted that Outlaw Star laserdisc. The second Tenchi movie i have already so that is kind of disappointing because i was trying to build a second set to sell and keep one, but the Sailor Moon R title is so common its not a loss really its like a ten dollar or less item.
Edit: Laserdiscs arrived.
I did receive my Sailor moon disc, and my Galaxy Express Eternal fantasy. As well as my Ah My Goddess Skuld episode in CAV with all the laserdisc inserts and no OBI. And the third Tenchi Movie.
Also preordered Mando season 1 and 2 blu-ray.
Edit: Mando sets arrived shipped in nothing but a paper bag for steelbooks, miracle their was no damage. Nice art cards. Cases hold discs too hard, disks nearly impossible to get off spindle without breaking them, horrible cases. I barely managed it and put them in sleeves.
They also sent my limited anime steelbook yesterday in nothing but a paper bag and it arrived dented. I don’t recommend Amazon. Lowest prices yes, long wait to ship, always packed poorly you play nothing but the roulette wheel of luck to get your books and blu rays in acceptable condition. It was by pure luck my anime arrived from Japan in new and undamaged shape shipped in nothing more than a cardboard envelope for documents, no hard box no bubble wrap.
Under Kennedy’s tenure at Lucasfilm there has been more collaboration and a willingness to delegate seeing how she just elevated Dave. I can’t sweep under the rug all the directors who have been fired or quit over creative differences, and the total lack of most planned movies never getting made. But over all its not the dictatorship of the prequel. Its closer even to the OT where Lucas was willing to listen to other people’s ideas. And got input from them and even delegated to other directors.
Had Lucas made his sequel he should have followed the same process of the original, get other writers. Hire the best editors, take advice from friends. Direct only the first one.
I liked Dorman’s cover art, and Fleming’s. I’d love to see mock up movie poster or even a film based on these.
It is wrong to assume that your digital movies will be preserved by the studios, who recently cancelled films as tax write-offs and deleted films from digital collections. The only way to legally own a film is through physical media.
Disney erased Willow tv series from their service. Its never going to be officially on Blu-Ray either, they’ve only encouraged piracy.
I just found out the new series was paywalled to Disney plus. Why do i have BBC America like at all.
Not paying when i was getting it for free. Maybe they’ll be a blu-ray at some point, who knows. They screwed over American fans. Been watching it on tv since Tennant .
I’ve been looking for the Mono Mix of Help! for a good long while to no luck. No VHS, or laserdisc has it.
I tried buying the first issue Laserdisc but that was a dead end. Mono compatible two channel stereo.
Best of series Japan Laserdisc of American Graffiti. I don’t recommend this transfer at all. Its one of the worst i’ve ever seen. I mean i can forgive that its pan and scan but its worse than some VHS tapes i have seen. Yes the sound is digital audio but its tinny sounding and absolutely terrible. Like someone taped a radio broadcast on cassette.
I’m just going to have to get the 1996 letterbox THX disc of the pre Special Edition and see if its better. I might have to settle for the revised 1998 edit if the sound and image is superior. the Signature collection.
I didn’t bother with my MCA Discovision disc its gotta be worse than the one i just watched. And its analog audio only.
Star Trek season 2. Japanese Laserdisc. The transfer is very good. The opening Space the final frontier seems to be from a vastly inferior source than the actual episodes though. And the audio is nothing too spectacular its mono sound like how the show was originally broadcast.
I hate the name Sheev, and i hate that Palpatine was renamed Darth Sidious more than Stewjon even if its idiotic. Just like i prefer apprentice over Padawan. I know this had nothing to do with the EU but, i dislike it as much as Yoda and Palpatine even having lightsabers.
Canon is whatever until George decided to change something. He was like Indiana, i’m making it up as i go.
They really need to stop pretending the tie in fiction that comes out of licensing is on the same level as the film and tv canon. They just keep upsetting people every time Filoni changes something.
If not for Anakin being a greedy dumbass, i’d blame his fall completely on the prequel Jedi. They did everything they could to make him bottle up his feelings and be afraid of them, separate him from his only family and teach him that human bonds of compassion and affection were abnormal.
The Jedi were like a weird cult.
Had he been freed as a slave on Tatooine, he either would have been a pilot on a freighter making grain or water shipments, or a moisture farmer if not conscripted into the Imperial Navy. And probably not become Darth Vader, though its hard to say.
Yeah Vader was supposed to be one of many Dark Lords. As per the Lucas/Foster story conference on Splinter, and in the novelization of Star Wars. That part was never edited out of the book itself but the audio tape abridgement changed it to just Vader being the Dark Lord. in the 1990s. John Whitman did the edited abridgement.
Rather than rewriting or having a new novelization of Return of the Jedi it just became non canon. Since Obi-Wan isn’t Owen’s brother in the prequel. And it wasn’t Obi-Wan’s hubris that lead to Anakin becoming Vader. Leia remembering her mom. Yoda wasn’t his Jedi Master.
Honestly the prequel itself should be struck from canon its done too much damage to Star Wars, even if i like Phantom Menace and i like Qui-Gon.
And the Gout disc is at best a facsimile. 77 crawl on 1992-93 video transfer with 1993 audio.
The smashing glass sound in the detention block is something i will never not hear with this version of the movie and i absolutely loathe it.
They had access to some low fade interpositive or internegative which looks very very nice, but they messed up the colors and used DNR. It was a sign of things to come, there will never be a good looking version of the original film at least officially.
Added The Creator Digital.
Reminds me of how you could create a Lightsaber in Kotor II backstory and Atris never gives it back,lol. I think i had a Viridian, a blood orange color, and even Silver. On my different playthroughs.
Yes it was very lazy to reuse an out-take from Return of the Jedi. You can even see Jerjerrod in the footage. Lucas likes to reuse deleted scenes later, and even ideas from scripts previously jettisoned. Most of the time not for the good.
Nope. The 1981 cut is what made its way to video in 1982. I have the FOX rental Tape. The roll up was reshot and starfield changed? The audio is original though its the theatrical stereo mix. Not the digital mix created later.
Its also pan and scan and not in letterbox. I don’t know if the tape is time compressed or not i haven’t watched it since 2006. It had tape rot, just like my first pressing Laserdisc has laser rot. I wonder if the thing even tracks anymore or would ruin my VCR.
Zahn used the term Dark Jedi to refer to Palpatine and Vader. I guess he had no idea what a Sith was?
I mean other than wanting The Noghri to be the Sith race, and Vader Lord of the Sith.
I mean i’m glad the Old EU Aka Legends has been left alone they haven’t gone back and given darth names to all the non Darth Sith Lords, or retroactively gave them all red lightsabers. And they didn’t edit the timeline or backstory Zahn had in his trilogy about the old Empire, the Clone Wars, they didn’t correct the ideas of the Jedi pre prequel to homogenize them with Lucas.
What i hate is the need to believe it was all one big consistent canon when it never was. KJA was full of it when he wanted to write that tome about the history of the Star Wars universe, never mind the published Chronology was way different than promised. He promised the existing EU fit the prequel. I mean i know there are fans of these things, but i understand why Disney binned it all. It didn’t fit Filoni Clone Wars either. So they said we’ll put it in the trash bin and call it Legends.
I recommend the X-wing books. If you like Corran Horn if not disregard.